#athority

[mamamanny]

I drew this awhile ago and I cant remember if I ever uploaded this here so here it is!

[gypsyhead]

beat it.

[nichedefinition]

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[roselipsrosecheeks]

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

by:Leonardo  Da Vinci 

[wildlinging]

You guys.

i have a graphic with a huge typo going around even after i fixed it a second later

why me

why i hate my life

why can't i ever check my work properly

why

i don't even wanna look at the graphic ugh

[lunarchandelure]

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

-Voltaire

[untitlednantoka-blog]

kitten

I heard a meow.  Or did I... "meow, meooowww".  YES i did.  Where was it coming from?

The twinge of a feeling I didn't want to return tried to keep me from searching. But I couldn't. 

Months before I had found four, 3 week old kittens left in a park.  I did all I could for them.  No one here would take them... in fact, it was quite the contrary. They would kill them instead.  They were strays.  There was no parent thus they were deemed defected and not good enough to live and cared for.  SCREWED UP!

The twinge grew greater as I found the source of the sound.  I knew right away this kitten... OHHH I JUST HATE THIS!  I knew it wouldn't live much longer without care.  I can't have pets.  If I thought I would be home enough to care for it, or that others wouldn't hear the meow through the paper walls I would do it.  If I wouldn't be heavily penalized and possibly lose my job, I would take it.  I just can't.  I want it but I can't take it. 

He was behind a fence as I rode past.  The twinge told me to keep going.  "SCREW THE twinge", I thought. This is an innocent kitten! What had he done to deserve this!?  Its a life that we, I believe, were given the authority and responsibility over, and someone is failing miserably.  I went over and pet him.  His eyes were caked over, and he didn't move much.  I don't know if he could.  He was very skinny, and black as a crow. 

I pray.  I pray that someone will love him.  I got back on my bike and rode away.  ARGGG!

[tumblrpigeon]

Galileo’s Battle Against Dogma And Authority

I had to write a paper for my Enlightenment Humanities class. I thought the subject was kind of interesting so here it is:

Galileo Galilei was a true revolutionary. His life marks the point that many modern day historians and scientists regard as the dawn of modern experimental science. Like Charles Darwin would do two hundred and fifty years later, Galileo had triggered a crisis in faith.  Galileo asked questions, he argued, he refused to accept what others insisted he must. When Galileo was in school there was only one acceptable point of view, “Aristotle is right about everything. No one doubts Aristotle.” But Galileo wanted everything proved. The world is never comfortable when its old ways are being replaced by new ones and this shows in the way that it responded to Galileo. In spite of all this, Galileo would eventually go on to help redefine the universe.

            Galileo made many contributions to our understanding of the universe and science. He was one of the first people to popularize the telescope, he believed in atomic theory, he championed the use of experiments rather than just hypothesis, and through such, he defeated many currently held Aristotelian beliefs. He debunked the idea that heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones, he was one of the first people to observe sunspots, proving the Sun wasn't perfect (an idea that flew in the face of the dogma of the Church that the heavens were perfect and unchanging), and he discovered the moon's librations, he also discovered the four Galilean moons of Jupiter: the first moons ever discovered to be orbiting a planet other than Earth. This also flew in the face of the religious conception of the Earth being the center and focus of creation. Another problem the church had with him was that he dared to assume he could interpret the scriptures himself. A privilege the Church guarded as its own upon penalty of death (usually by burning at the stake).             During Galileo’s time, astronomy was considered a field of mathematics. I have had conversations with people today about Galileo’s dilemma with the Church in which they have asserted, "No one had a problem with a mathematical system. The question was whether it was physically real." Oh but the church had a HUGE problem with this particular mathematical system as long as it was claiming that the earth revolved around the sun and was not the center of the universe. They (the Church) claimed that this was in direct opposition to the Bible ( such as when Joshua orders the Sun to STAY STILL. and Ecclesiastes 1:5 “The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises again.”) Galileo tried to work with the church and urged them that maybe their interpretation was too literal and told them "it would be a terrible detriment for the souls if people found themselves convinced by proof of something that it was made then a sin to believe." but they would not budge.             Many of my Catholic friends have tried to downplay his persecution by the Church. The fact is the Church tried to shutdown science that seemed to contradict their doctrine. The Jesuits wanted to put Galileo to death for his acceptance of atomic theory because they felt it contradicted their ideas about the bread and water of communion being Christ's body (transubstantiation). They wanted him charged with Heresy for this but Pope Urban (who was a friend of Galileo) intervened and charged him with heresy for his views about the Sun and Earth before the Jesuits could get to him.  Pope Urban VIII felt by doing this, he could save Galileo from death. He was condemned to prison for his "heresy" but Pope Urban was able to change the sentence to house arrest instead for the rest of his life. Galileo was then 70. As a condition of his house arrest, he wasn't to be allowed any visitors except his children for the rest of his days. Four years later, when he went completely blind, the Church finally relented a little and allowed him to have certain other special visitors. It took the Catholic Church until 1979, under the order of Pope John Paul II to re-examine the case of Galileo and finally, in 1983, the Church admitted it had been unjust towards Galileo and he should have never been condemned.

            Galileo was a man who approached everything with common sense and logic during an age when people were still relying heavily on beliefs born of habit, comfort, and even superstition. He made us all aware of the need for freedom of inquiry. As he predicted, religious and philosophical tradition had to yield to observation and fact if human knowledge was to prosper. Each had to be flexible and willing to incorporate the theories of the other.  The message of Galileo’s life was that the human quest for understanding and proof could not be regulated or restricted by anybody. Like the Earth, it must follow its own unimpeded orbit around its center of light. Today, the determination and courage of Galileo in his fight for truth have gained him almost as much admiration as his contributions to science.